🍉 CR Cardenas 🍉
@nepenthesbaphomet.bsky.social
Doctoral student in the Toussaint Lab at the Natural History Museum of Geneva. Studying trait evolution of ground beetles using museomics
https://crcardenas.github.io/
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Bike polo is okay
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https://crcardenas.github.io/
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Bike polo is okay
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Draft genome of Carabidae: Carabus depressus just dropped.
Regardless of the high fragmentation we got a 98% Busco score from a specimen that was stored in Ethanol for almost 5 years. First a few days in a back pack and then at -20 °C until extraction. Pretty cool stuff!
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Regardless of the high fragmentation we got a 98% Busco score from a specimen that was stored in Ethanol for almost 5 years. First a few days in a back pack and then at -20 °C until extraction. Pretty cool stuff!
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Draft genome of the endemic alpine ground beetle Carabus (Platycarabus) depressus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from long-read sequencing of a frozen archived specimen
Abstract. The rapid advancement of genomic technologies has enabled the production of highly contiguous reference genomes for non-model organisms. However,
doi.org
March 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Draft genome of Carabidae: Carabus depressus just dropped.
Regardless of the high fragmentation we got a 98% Busco score from a specimen that was stored in Ethanol for almost 5 years. First a few days in a back pack and then at -20 °C until extraction. Pretty cool stuff!
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Regardless of the high fragmentation we got a 98% Busco score from a specimen that was stored in Ethanol for almost 5 years. First a few days in a back pack and then at -20 °C until extraction. Pretty cool stuff!
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Damn you Calosoma (Callisthenes) breviusculum & C. erwesemanni!
Why do you gotta be like that?
Why do you gotta be like that?
February 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Damn you Calosoma (Callisthenes) breviusculum & C. erwesemanni!
Why do you gotta be like that?
Why do you gotta be like that?
Found a neat rust based tool. Maybe I'll try getting it running in one of my pipelines... Right after I do the 100 other things I need and want to do.
github.com/zaeleus/nood...
github.com/zaeleus/nood...
GitHub - zaeleus/noodles: Bioinformatics I/O libraries in Rust
Bioinformatics I/O libraries in Rust. Contribute to zaeleus/noodles development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Found a neat rust based tool. Maybe I'll try getting it running in one of my pipelines... Right after I do the 100 other things I need and want to do.
github.com/zaeleus/nood...
github.com/zaeleus/nood...
Sculpturing is going to be the worst of doing all this. The balance between illustration and realism is hard
January 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sculpturing is going to be the worst of doing all this. The balance between illustration and realism is hard
Working on a poster, and I may have spent a little more time than necessary on this beetle illustration.
Theres only one blurry photo of a live Calosoma (Carabophanus) gestroi on the internet.
Theres only one blurry photo of a live Calosoma (Carabophanus) gestroi on the internet.
January 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Working on a poster, and I may have spent a little more time than necessary on this beetle illustration.
Theres only one blurry photo of a live Calosoma (Carabophanus) gestroi on the internet.
Theres only one blurry photo of a live Calosoma (Carabophanus) gestroi on the internet.
Ok, last bit of bike polo chatter for now. Plus I've never watched myself play, so I've gotta save this clip here. Still riding the high of winning a tournament!
Best viewed full screen on mobile.
Best viewed full screen on mobile.
November 26, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Ok, last bit of bike polo chatter for now. Plus I've never watched myself play, so I've gotta save this clip here. Still riding the high of winning a tournament!
Best viewed full screen on mobile.
Best viewed full screen on mobile.
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Anyone able to confirm Colobostruma elliotti for these minuscule #ants I found today south of Sydney, #Australia?
There are barely any photos of this group, they are so small and hard to photograph.
#myrmecology #entomology #antsofaustralia #ant #macro #macrophotography
There are barely any photos of this group, they are so small and hard to photograph.
#myrmecology #entomology #antsofaustralia #ant #macro #macrophotography
November 24, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Anyone able to confirm Colobostruma elliotti for these minuscule #ants I found today south of Sydney, #Australia?
There are barely any photos of this group, they are so small and hard to photograph.
#myrmecology #entomology #antsofaustralia #ant #macro #macrophotography
There are barely any photos of this group, they are so small and hard to photograph.
#myrmecology #entomology #antsofaustralia #ant #macro #macrophotography
So a non academic/entomology thing. I played in a Hard Court Bike Polo tournament today and our team (Brocolis) ranked 3rd and came first in the single elimination bracket!
Super cool to actually be first place on the podium. Thanks a ton for hosting Lausanne!
Go ride bikes with your friends
Super cool to actually be first place on the podium. Thanks a ton for hosting Lausanne!
Go ride bikes with your friends
November 24, 2024 at 10:03 PM
So a non academic/entomology thing. I played in a Hard Court Bike Polo tournament today and our team (Brocolis) ranked 3rd and came first in the single elimination bracket!
Super cool to actually be first place on the podium. Thanks a ton for hosting Lausanne!
Go ride bikes with your friends
Super cool to actually be first place on the podium. Thanks a ton for hosting Lausanne!
Go ride bikes with your friends
Lots of great talks and discussions had at #EntSoc24, I'm bummed it's over! Hopefully I can make it to another one sooner rather than later!
November 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Lots of great talks and discussions had at #EntSoc24, I'm bummed it's over! Hopefully I can make it to another one sooner rather than later!
Reposted by 🍉 CR Cardenas 🍉
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Omw to #EntSoc24 after a little vacation seeing friends and loved ones in the Midwest.
Can't wait to see all that's going on with all the ento folks back state side!
Can't wait to see all that's going on with all the ento folks back state side!
November 9, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Omw to #EntSoc24 after a little vacation seeing friends and loved ones in the Midwest.
Can't wait to see all that's going on with all the ento folks back state side!
Can't wait to see all that's going on with all the ento folks back state side!
Reposted by 🍉 CR Cardenas 🍉
!!!
initially thought they were an oribatid beetle mite... then freaked out upon taking a few photos - realizing they were BAEUS - a *tiny* (~600µm) parasitic wasp!
Lost them after trying to stop lens down for a bit more depth of field! Underneath a log, NE Oklahoma
initially thought they were an oribatid beetle mite... then freaked out upon taking a few photos - realizing they were BAEUS - a *tiny* (~600µm) parasitic wasp!
Lost them after trying to stop lens down for a bit more depth of field! Underneath a log, NE Oklahoma
February 7, 2024 at 10:32 PM
!!!
initially thought they were an oribatid beetle mite... then freaked out upon taking a few photos - realizing they were BAEUS - a *tiny* (~600µm) parasitic wasp!
Lost them after trying to stop lens down for a bit more depth of field! Underneath a log, NE Oklahoma
initially thought they were an oribatid beetle mite... then freaked out upon taking a few photos - realizing they were BAEUS - a *tiny* (~600µm) parasitic wasp!
Lost them after trying to stop lens down for a bit more depth of field! Underneath a log, NE Oklahoma
Reposted by 🍉 CR Cardenas 🍉
Learn to display multiple, overlapping species distributions on one map using hexagons & points in a wonderful new ALA Labs post by Callum Waite & @shandiya.bsky.social 😍
labs.ala.org.au/posts/2024-0...
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub
labs.ala.org.au/posts/2024-0...
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub
February 1, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Learn to display multiple, overlapping species distributions on one map using hexagons & points in a wonderful new ALA Labs post by Callum Waite & @shandiya.bsky.social 😍
labs.ala.org.au/posts/2024-0...
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub
labs.ala.org.au/posts/2024-0...
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub
I presented the important part of my thesis work at Biology24 in Zurich yesterday. It was great and I had a ton of interesting questions. A few other museum folk were very interested in my molecular lab methods!
January 20, 2024 at 10:36 AM
I presented the important part of my thesis work at Biology24 in Zurich yesterday. It was great and I had a ton of interesting questions. A few other museum folk were very interested in my molecular lab methods!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
XKCD comic sums up this paper pretty well.
XKCD comic sums up this paper pretty well.
October 9, 2023 at 8:59 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
XKCD comic sums up this paper pretty well.
XKCD comic sums up this paper pretty well.